The sick as biological citizens? How patient-user organizations reconfigure the field of health and illness

Autor/innen

  • Hernán Cuevas Universidad Diego Portales
  • Michaela T. Mayrhofer Institute of Pathology Medical University of Graz

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15203/ozp.95.vol42iss3

Schlagwörter:

biological citizenship, patient-user organizations, biopolitics, HIV/AIDS, myopathies

Abstract

Based on a qualitative two-cased study of patient-user organizations, this article claims that some of the forms of sociality that have emerged in recent decades are changing the landscape of citizenship in the field of health and illness. Findings show that politicised and radical patient-user organizations can effectively challenge biopolitical governmentality, its medical institutions, as well as its configuration of power/knowledge and forms of subjectivation by using what we consider to be affirmative biopolitical strategies.

Autor/innen-Biografien

  • Hernán Cuevas, Universidad Diego Portales

    Hernan Cuevas (PhD, Essex University)

    Cuerrently works as Lecturer at  the School of Political Science (Escuela de Ciencia Política) from the Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago de Chile

     

    hernan.cuevas@udp.cl; hcuevasster@gmail.com

  • Michaela T. Mayrhofer, Institute of Pathology Medical University of Graz

    Michaela Th. Mayrhofer (PhD, Universität Wien)

    Currently works at the Institute of Pathology

    Medical University of Graz

    Austria

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2013-09-11

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Bd. 42 Nr. 3 (2013): Offenes Heft

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